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Quadrant Online - Climate speakPresumably too Mr Combet will go on to try to convince us all that black is white; that costlier energy will generate jobs throughout the whole Australian economy. On that basis $60, $100 a ton of CO2 will be even better than $20. A boundless beneficial future of CO2 taxation awaits.
Welcome to the world of climate speak. In this world, taking away Australia’s comparative advantage in cheap fossil fuels will be good for us. All those constituents in the electorates of New England and Lyne and the coal miners and manufacturing workers who are a tad suspicious and concerned about this should relax. From their elevated positions in the scheme of things, and with the benefit of many experts, Windsor, Oakeshott and Combet know better than you what’s good for you.
Laura Ness: Frost does damage on upper slopes | The Salinas Californian | thecalifornian.comCould we really be closing the book of April? How could it be that May Day is upon us and parts of Monterey County are still dealing with frost issues?
Scheid reports having a few row edges nipped, while Rich Smith of Paraiso reported damage, especially on April 8, when the Salinas Valley experienced a hyper-cooling event that spared low-lying frost-prone areas and hit upslope vineyards instead.
Acute Science Madness Flares Up Again In Germany – The Witch Hunts Are ReturningMake no mistake about it – eventually history will look back and view these “infallible scientists” as Pope Gregory the 9ths or Innocent the 8th-type crackpots and zealots who just lost their way in the darkness of their own ignorance and arrogance.
Using Misery to Drive home ones agenda… despicable «If it was because of so much warmth.. why did the clash to cause the core of the worst storms occur so far south and east. Afterall if warmth was so prominent shouldnt the main fight zone be further north???
Now I am not going to say its cooling without a doubt, but if one simply looks at the facts of when the worst tornadoes are occurring, you cant escape the fact that major strong cold troughs are involved and that the global temp is either colder than normal, or growing colder.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » CO2 and TornadoesWell, you now have a simple algorithm for sorting flakes and politicized hacks from honest scientists — anyone who is going around this week saying that the tornadoes in Alabama this week were due to manmade CO2 sit firmly in the former category.
April 30 Blizzard warning in North Dakota and the coldest April in 36 years in Pacific Northwest « In Montana, Billings has had 120 straight days with lows below 40, a new record.
A tale of two problems « The Daily BayonetThe cost of earthquake proofing is high but is mere a fraction of the price BC, Canada and the rest of the world is being asked to pay to ‘stop global warming’.
Why are taxpayers of British Columbia worried about the costs of defending against a real threat yet apparently unconcerned about the cost of fighting an entirely fictional threat?
Strange, no?
A prediction market for climate outcomes | Climate Etc.what this proposal does is provide objective information about what everyone else thinks.
How Evil Climate Skeptics Caused the Tornadoes Which Killed Americans | NewsReal BlogGleick’s Orwellian double-speak is trying to get the reader to make the weather-climate change association, without making the weather-climate change association. Which is a good thing because scientists have come out and said that there is no relationship between climate change and this week’s tornadoes.
The other guest on the show, Jonathan Kay, did use the word "pathological"–to refer to conspiracy theory thinking, or conspiracism, not global warming skeptics. I did not use that word, and disagree with him about this.
Book links climate change, healthClimate change isn’t just bad for the polar bears, argue Dan Ferber and Paul Epstein. In “Changing Planet, Changing Health,” the authors link global warming to declining human health.
U.S. Life Expectancy at All-Time High - NYTimes.comAmericans are living nearly two-and-a-half months longer, according to new life expectancy statistics released today. In 2007, life expectancy in the United States reached a high of nearly 78 years, up from 77.7 a year earlier.
Life expectancy in the United States has been on the rise for a decade, increasing 1.4 years — from 76.5 years in 1997 to 77.9 in 2007, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Kia recalls small cars due to fuel tank problem - BusinessWeekKia is recalling more than 58,000 Spectra compact cars in cold-weather states because the gas tanks can drop to the ground and cause a fire.
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The recall affects cars in 20 cold-weather states and Washington, D.C., where salt is used to clear roads of ice and snow.
NASA Is “Delusional” | Real ScienceTheir model makes no sense theoretically or empirically. Severe tornadoes declined as the world warmed from 1975-2000, just as theory predicts they should. Severe tornadoes increased from 1950-1975, as the world cooled. 1975 was the peak of the global cooling panic
Want to save the planet? Al Gore has an app for that | Grist[Photo caption] Al Gore "Buy my app or the planet gets it."
Q. How would you envision people using this app? Would it be a way to, say, combat a climate skeptic at a dinner party?
A. I'm sure that some people will use it for making the case. It even draws an analogy in that regard to the faux-controversy over Barack Obama being born in the United States.
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Q. Climate skeptics seem to be more convinced than ever that climate change is some sort of conspiracy theory. What is the best response to climate naysayers?
A. I do think that the case has been made, just as the case has been made that President Obama was born in the U.S. The analogy holds when you acknowledge that, no matter what the facts, there will still be people who dispute them. But over time, the balance will continue to shift. The reality of the climate crisis is indisputable, and the real-world manifestations are ever more threatening. I do think that it is time to focus the conversation on how we solve the climate crisis.
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Q. Were there things that you had hoped to do with the app that you weren't able to do?
A. Sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere -- that's the only thing it won't do.
...I just spend my time between this app and Grist.
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Q. What have you seen in the last year that's given you hope for the climate movement? Are you seeing signs of hope out there that things are moving along?
A. Absolutely. [At the recent Power Shift conference,] there were 6,000 to 10,000 young people present. They were very enthusiastic.
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Most important of all, I've seen the emergence of the most powerful grassroots movement that the world has ever seen. There are, by some estimates, as many as 2 million new NGOs around the world focused on the environmental crisis and the climate crisis. I'm very encouraged by that.
Gas prices will rise under any party's plan: economistsStephen Harper is warning that the NDP's plan to reduce carbon emissions would increase gasoline prices. But the reality is that Canadians would likely feel more pain at the pumps under any of the main political parties' greenhouse gas approaches.
A model hotel goes beyond the “Green Hour” campaignthe Food and Beverage team has decided to fully commit on this initiative by faithfully dimming lights for an hour in all its restaurants and bars, leaving our guests no choice but to brace this call to save Mother Earth
- Bishop Hill blog - There is only the teamThinkProgress looks at tornado damage in the USA and collates a series of comments on the issue from climate scientists. For some unaccountable reason, every single scientist they have spoken to appears to be a member of that small clique we know as the Hockey Team.
For Ed, Who Can’t Search | Real Science[interesting Paul Ehrlich quotes]
SPOKANE, Wash. -- April snow showers are taking their toll on local nurseries that rely on spring's sunshine and warmth but are instead getting Mother Nature's cold shoulder.At one of those nurseries, Blue Moon Garden and Nursery, they've seen a 60-percent drop in business compared to this time last year.
Awesome video shows us what the messaging on climate and clean energy must become | GristHoly hickory-smoked pole beans, did you just see that? That's what happens when the messaging on climate shifts from scare tactics -- which studies show only work on about 10 percent of the population -- to a totally honest, positive but not Pollyanna-ish attempt to get people excited about real change.
Carbon Nation is the logical next step after An Inconvenient Truth: We know there's a problem; now, how do we get everyone to do something about it?
Carbon Nation also, not incidentally, sidesteps the issue of whether or not you believe in climate change. I don't think it's ever a good idea to stop talking about the insane, dinosaur-extinction level of change that is coming at us like a freight train on account of all the greenhouse gases we already pumped into the atmosphere, but the fact remains: From a near-term perspective, climate change is the least good reason to get off of fossil fuels.
Expeditions Recalled: "The Fate of Greenland" - NYTimes.comIt was surely one of the great scientific adventures of the modern age. For several years in the middle of the last decade, a group of eminent climate scientists fell under the patronage of a billionaire philanthropist named Gary Comer, who turned his luxury yacht into a scientific platform for exploring the Arctic. Spending Mr. Comer’s money and riding in planes and helicopters that he procured, the researchers managed in just a few years to turn up intriguing new evidence about the potential for abrupt climate change.
The Top 10 Solar States - NYTimes.comAs I reported in Thursday’s story about solar panels attached to utility poles, New Jersey is the nation’s second largest solar market behind California thanks to the state government’s commitment to increase the amount of electricity derived from renewable energy sources over the next decade.
UW professor: Global Warming will happen, despite cold April - Seattle News - MyNorthwest.comUniversity of Washington Atmospheric Sciences Professor Cliff Mass talks about one of the coldest Aprils on record and then prepares the Puget Sound for a warming trend.
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"The fact that we haven't warmed up much doesn't mean anything. The warming is coming, but it's not going to be really significant until the second half of the century," Mass said.
The professor said the warming trend is "sort of exponential; it starts slowly and then revs up at the end."
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He said, "If you go to the conferences of my profession, if you talk to people who study climate and weather, 99 percent of them all believe this is extraordinarily serious."
Cognitive Dissonance Is Fueling Conservative Denial | MyFDL Climate change is about an economic model that demands infinite growth on a finite planet. However, environmental groups are reluctant to relate climate change to economics and politics, probably because conservatives would see it as confirmation of the right-wing myth that global warming is a socialist plot to redistribute the world’s wealth.
For a conservative whose entire identity is defined by faith in the economics of capitalism and free markets, acceptance of climate change poses a danger to their sense of self, and will be avoided at all costs. Therefore, attempts to persuade this portion of the country with science and logic is a lost cause. However, for those of us who truly care about the future of our one and only planet and our species, it is time that we face what we have been loath to highlight in the past: Unfettered industrial capitalism is unsustainable and is causing climate change to spiral out of control. Until we begin to challenge the economics fueling environmental degradation, we are no better than our climate denying counterparts.
MSNBC Panel Equates 'Pathological' Global Warming Skeptics to Birthers | NewsBusters.org "I think there's a reality gap between the parties," asserted Mooney. "Republicans and Democrats believe different things about a lot of issues and it turns out Republicans are more likely to wrong."
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Kay went a step further than Hayes, not only likening birthers to global warming skeptics, but also conflating global warming skeptics with racists, sexists, and homophobes.
The President’s Wacky Oil Plan, Part 2Yesterday, the President implored Saudi Arabia to produce more oil. That is, he told the Saudis to “drill, baby, drill.” He did the same thing a month ago in Brazil. Meanwhile, U.S. production remains stunted by the Obama administration’s de facto moratorium on new oil and gas leases and permits. Why is “drill, baby, drill” appropriate for Saudi Arabia and Brazil, but not for the U.S.?
The Green Footprint of the Royal Wedding - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online Got that? I can’t use a regular light bulb, but the “green” Prince of Wales can destroy the planet? It’s good to almost be king, I guess.
We’re told time and time and time again how great a crisis we’re causing with carbon emission, yet whenever the someone who’s telling me it’s a crisis has an opportunity to act like there’s a crisis, they punt.
Brian Williams Wonders If Tornadoes Caused by ‘Something We Have Done?’ | NewsBusters.orgOn Thursday night, looking at the tornadoes across the South, ABC’s Sam Champion ridiculously claimed “everybody is asking if climate change played a role here.” Brian Williams blamed humans: “What's going on here? Is this something we have done?”
Carbon — demonized by climate propaganda « JoNovaForget plate tectonics and continental drift. A trace gas in the atmosphere can reshape the Earth, at least, that’s apparently how many people see it. A new survey shows that over a third of the population think that climate change induces not just tsunamis, but even volcanic eruptions. Worse, 37% of people are so convinced carbon is pollution that they think it would be a worthwhile aim to reduce the carbon content of their body. (The ultimate diet, you might say).
NC Media Watch: Stage being set for epic environmental battleAccording to an LA Time’s article the Supreme Court indicates it will dismiss 6-state global warming lawsuit, indicating that the EPA should be the final voice on the regulation of GHG, not single judges in seperate states. This puts more pressure on the EPA to carry out the environmentalist mission of destroying the US economy.
Obama Tilting at Oil Companies, Propping Up WindmillsIn Cervantes’ Don Quixote, the title character repeatedly makes a fool of himself with well-meaning crusades against common sense. With U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder riding along as Sancho Panza, President Barack Obama is mounting his own quixotic quest: lowering gas prices by increasing the cost of doing business.
U.N. to feed North Koreans after tough winter – This Just In - CNN.com BlogsThe United Nations World Food Program and UNICEF announced Friday plans to launch emergency operations in North Korea to feed an estimated 3.5 million people in desperate need after crop losses and a harsh winter.
Women and children will be the focus of the one-year WFP operation, which is expected to cost just over $200 million, the WFP said.
Hippies heart disaster « The Daily BayonetThe ‘best’ part for Johnson is that southern states were worst hit, and every hippie knows the south is full of bitter-clinger deniers, right?
Johnson’s willingness to point fingers and blame the victim is sick, but we endure it because he and Mims are skeptic recruiting machines. The warmist rush to use natural disaster to push their global warming agenda sickens most people and turns them away from supporting the ugly misanthropy that pervades the green movement.
The New Nostradamus of the North: Brainwashed indigenous people blame their problems on global warmingThis video is another example of how the European Union climate alarmists use poor indigenous people to spread climate change propaganda. The method is rather simple and cynical: Find some representatives of indigenous people, who - quite rightly - have experienced all kinds of problems with regard to their traditional lifestyle. Then - most likely in the form of a project grant from the EU - tell them that all their problems are caused by human induced climate change/global warming. The last step is to write a script in which the poor people recite what they have been tought. After the "statements" have been recorded, the result is most likely something like this:
Explorer Update | Catlin Arctic SurveySunday 24th April, 2011
...All the science was completed despite having to drill holes through 4 metre thick ice.
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Tuesday 19th April, 2011
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In the morning it was mostly short sections of travel between each ridge, until they reached an enormous pressure ridge made up of 2m thick blocks of ice.
All science was completed successfully, although it was a struggle to get down through the multiyear ice, which required 4 drill flights attached to the Mora Ice Auger to get through it.
Record snowfall boosts Mount Washington visitsMount Washington Alpine Resort wrapped up the 2010-11 season this week with its highest snowfall on record and strong visitor numbers and overall revenues.
Total snowfall accumulation reached 1,920 centimetres, beating the 1998-99 record of 1,835 centimetres, according to resort spokesman Brent Curtain.
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Big snow dumps also created challenges for the resort, which was forced to truck snow off the mountain to clear space for parking.
Aim high on climate change action - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Carbon tax. Climate Change. These are terms that now trigger a collective mind-numbing effect on the electorate.
It is unsurprisingly psychologically beneficial and much easier to just switch off. Australians have been patiently waiting for action on climate change for four years, but over that time, public mood and support for action has significantly fallen (you only have to look at the latest ACNielsen Poll). It seems that more and more Australians are willing to be complacent when it comes to taking action on climate change. How did we get to this state? And what is the real unacknowledged reason behind public disillusionment?
ABC The Drum - A government full of non-believersClimate change is one clear area of difference between the parties. But even there Julia Gillard argued against action when Kevin Rudd was leader, only to take up the cause again as leader of a minority government relying on Green support.
Coffee May Rise 40% on Frost After Kraft, Smucker Raised Prices - BusinessweekApril 29 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil, the world’s biggest coffee grower, is facing the risk of frost after hail this month, raising the prospect of a 40 percent jump in bean costs after Kraft Foods Inc. and J.M. Smucker Co. already increased prices.
The chance of frost in Brazil increased with the weakening of La Nina, a cooling of waters in the Pacific Ocean, Brazil’s Somar Meteorologia said this week. Frost in 1994 damaged 35 percent of the crop by 1997, sending prices up 39 percent that year, according to Somar. Should cold weather damage trees this year, coffee may rise to a record $4.20 a pound, the median in a Bloomberg survey of 11 analysts, traders and investors.
NC Media Watch: A Global Warmer is Nevada City's new City ManagerSo, what is Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority and what would a program manager do?
EPA Blatantly Lying To Children | Real ScienceOcean temperatures are below normal. Mountains have record snow. The 1880s-1910s had much worse forest fires. The US was hotter in the 1930s. There is no evidence that rain and snow patterns are outside of normal variability. There is no evidence that plant life cycles are outside the normal range of variability. Sea level has been rising for 18,000 years, and is currently rising very slowly around the US, if at all. Glaciers have been melting for 18,000 years. The worst hurricanes and tornadoes occurred more than 70 years ago. Severe tornadoes are on the decline. It has been almost 1,000 days since any hurricane hit the US. ………………………….
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Weather is Not Climate Unless People DieYou can see in the graph above that there is no upwards trend in US tornado deaths, 1940-2010 (PDF). This year's very active season and tragic loss of life won't alter that conclusion.
The 13-year-old who has the world planting trees - TelegraphAt the age of nine, Felix Finkbeiner hatched a plan to plant a million trees in his native Germany. Now he's a global eco-superhero
...'Getting media attention is easy,’ Felix notes nonchalantly.
From then on, Felix’s commitments snowballed. In June 2008 he attended the UN Children’s Conference in Stavanger, Norway, and was elected to the junior board of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). That November, he addressed the European Parliament. In 2009 he travelled to the UNEP conference in South Korea, explaining the three-year process required to plant a million trees. With that goal in sight in Germany, he invited other nations to start their own Plant for the Planet groups. Last year, aged 12, he was a star of the Cancun climate-change conference.
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Global warming, he intones, is caused by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Trees capture this carbon dioxide. The answer to looming climate catastrophe: trees, lots of them.
What about the climate change sceptics?
'We children discussed this often,’ he told delegates at the UN in New York in January. 'We have an answer. If we follow the scientists that tell us there is a crisis and we act, and in 20 years we find out that they were wrong, we didn’t do any mistake. But if we follow the sceptics and in 20 years we find out that they were wrong, it will be too late to save our future.’
Business Roundtable Urges EPA to Drop Its U.S. Greenhouse-Gas Regulations - BloombergThe Business Roundtable, a group of chief executives officers from companies such as General Electric Co. (GE) and Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), urged the Obama administration to abandon efforts to regulate greenhouse gases from industrial polluters.
Meet Don Brash .. climate sceptic - Carbon NewsDon Brash says he’s a climate-change sceptic.
The former National Party leader and Reserve Bank Governor who this week ousted Rodney Hyde to take the Act Party leadership, told interviewer Lindsay Perigo on Saturday that he is does not believe that human activity is altering the climate.
NOAA Scientist Rejects Global Warming Link to Tornadoes - FoxNews.comA top official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rejected claims by environmental activists that the outbreak of tornadoes ravaging the American South is related to climate change brought on by global warming.
Greg Carbin, the warning coordination meteorologist at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, said warming trends do create more of the fuel that tornadoes require, such as moisture, but that they also deprive tornadoes of another essential ingredient: wind shear.
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Asked if climate change should be “acquitted” in a jury trial where it stood charged with responsibility for tornadoes, Carbin replied: “I would say that is the right verdict, yes.” Because there is no direct connection as yet established between the two? “That’s correct,” Carbin replied.
Government-backed corn ethanol lurches on, paving a road to nowhere | GristRather than treat the ethanol industry's proposal with the scorn it deserves, Congress seems set to embrace it. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has essentially packaged up the Growth Energy idea and made it into a bill called the Securing America's Future with Energy and Sustainable Technologies Act. Her colleague Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on Wednesday appeared at an ethanol plant in Glenville, Minn., owned by Poet, the nation's largest biofuel company.
Sounding very much like one of the politicians he once satirized, Franken gushed support for Klobuchar's industry-written bill
Pain at the Pump? Try a Charge on Carbon Emissions - NYTimes.com The best way to drive energy innovation would be an emissions charge of $5 per ton of greenhouse gases beginning in 2012, rising to $100 per ton by 2032.
April Snowfall Near Whitefish Sets New Record - News Story - NBCMontana NBC MontanaWHITEFISH, Mont. -- Park rangers report all time record snowfall in Stillwater State Forest, at a site 18 miles north of Whitefish.
Foresters completed their April snow course surveys for the area on Tuesday. They say snow measurement tubes inserted into the snow in Striker Basin show the average depth to be 131.4”, which is 18” above the previous all time record of 103”, set in March of 1997.
Winter-weary Calgarians dig out again | Calgary | News | Calgary Sun“It’s not global warming, it’s not the ice age cometh, it’s Calgary climate,” he said.
Warmer oceans release CO2 faster than thought - environment - 25 April 2011 - New ScientistAnd while more precise than the others, the team's study also comes with significant uncertainty: plus or minus 200 years, meaning there could actually be no lag time between rising temperatures and gases being released from the atmosphere.
"They've nailed it," says Paul Fraser, a greenhouse gas researcher at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
The Reference Frame: Al Gore, religion, Our Choice, and iPadSo the right idea is to create the coolest, hugely interactive iPad book app ever written (one based on his climatic religious book, Our Choice), with an hour of films embedded in it, among other things, and sell this piece of climatic religion just for $4.99.
Scepticism is bastardry, says head of ACF | The AustralianTHE president of the Australian Conservation Foundation has attacked the "scientific bastardry" of climate change sceptics amid weakening public consensus that humans are to blame.
Ian Lowe, who is also professor of science, technology and society at Griffith University, lamented the narrowing of the carbon tax debate.
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He said the evidence for human-induced climate change was backed by virtually all scientists. He described the views of climate change sceptics as "illegitimate arguments that you could call scientific bastardry".
Perceptive Article On The Sad State Of Research Funding By Toby N. Carlson | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.With respect to NSF funding in climate science, the current focus on funding multi-decadal climate predictions by the NSF fits with his characterization that they ”are bureaucracies that promote top-down science to suit political and administrative ends“.
On Birth Certificates, Climate Risk and an Inconvenient Mind - NYTimes.comIt’s easy to forget that there’s been plenty of climate denial to go around. It took a decade for those seeking a rising price on carbon dioxide emissions as a means to transform American and global energy norms to realize that a price sufficient to drive the change was a political impossibility.
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10:11 a.m. | Updated For much more on the behavioral factors that shape the human struggle over climate policy, I encourage you to explore “Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life,” a new book by Kari Marie Norgaard, a sociologist who has just moved from Whitman College to the University of Oregon.
Environmental shock and awe - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)The declining support for the radical Green climate change agenda validates the wisdom of Lincoln’s observation. More and more Australians are waking up to the alarmist fraud that is climate change pseudo-science and are saying ‘thanks, but no thanks’.
Bipartisan US Senate Delegation Returns from ChinaClean Energy. The delegation spent a great deal of time learning more about China's aggressive investments in clean energy. “China isn't investing so heavily in clean energy just because it's good for the environment – it’s doing so because it's good for the economy,” Reid said. “China knows clean energy creates jobs and, in reducing its reliance on oil, makes it more secure. With our vast renewable energy resources and American ingenuity, we can’t afford not to be a globally competitive leader in this important area. We should also look for new opportunities to collaborate on and advance clean-energy deployment here and abroad.”
Al's Journal : Our Choice App Launch TodayI'm excited to announce my new app, Our Choice is going on sale today. It is a fully interactive full-length book App that describes all of the solutions to the climate crisis with animations, interactive info-graphics, pictures, audio, text, an hour of documentary video and more. I am donating 100% of the proceeds I would otherwise receive to the Alliance for Climate Protection.
Energy Tribune- More Oil SupplyIdeological environmentalism has trumped economic development and has thwarted economic freedom, which was, ostensibly, the motive of the Cold War which America won but certainly does not act like it did. Al Gore, a precursor to Obama even before the Nobel Prize for the “Inconvenient Truth” wrote that the “internal combustion engine is the biggest threat to humankind.”
Tell that to the Chinese who are buying at least 40,000 new cars per day.
Humpback Whales & Baleen Whales ? Cetaceans ? Whale Research ? Antarctica & Sea Ice ? Climate Change ? Global Warming | LiveScienceA record-breaking crowd of humpback whales has been seen in chilly waters near Antarctica, giving researchers a unique opportunity to study the colossal creatures — not to mention a few thrills.
However, scientists warn the unprecedented whale numbers, drawn to the region for all-night feasting on their favored prey, may portend hard times ahead for the region's other residents in an ominous sign of climate change.
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The research team counted five whales per square kilometer. Picture New York's Central Park, and that translates to 15 whales, each about 45 feet (13 meters) long, hanging around the premises. The previous observation record was about one whale per square kilometer.
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Climate change is keeping the region ice-free for far longer than in past years, said Ted Scambos, a lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), part of the University of Colorado.
The history of Antarctica's sea ice is a complicated one. Records indicate there was a huge drop in sea ice around the frigid continent sometime in the '60s or early '70s to near-present day levels — and there has been a slight increase in sea ice since then.
More proof of global coolingWarmists and their disciples have long told us that the population of Antactic krill has DECREASED drastically in recent decades due to global warming ...So what conclusions do we draw from the recent report excerpted below?
With the "flexibility" that Warmists are renowned for, the authors below now say that an INCREASE in Krill proves global warming. We are apparently supposed to forget that they said the opposite for many years. Conclusion: We are listening to psychopaths, not scientists
Now even BHP backs off Gillard’s carbon dioxide tax | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogNow even BHP, for too long too acquiescent in this madness, is backing away:
Them People Is So Much Smarter Than We Is | Real ScienceWhat they mean by evolution, is that any change to the environment will cause a species to go extinct. Darwin called it survival of the pathetic. A tiny change in atmospheric chemistry or ocean pH is simply impossible to cope with.
Noam Chomsky: Is the World Too Big to Fail? The Contours of Global OrderI do not want to end without mentioning another externality that is dismissed in market systems: the fate of the species. Systemic risk in the financial system can be remedied by the taxpayer, but no one will come to the rescue if the environment is destroyed. That it must be destroyed is close to an institutional imperative. Business leaders who are conducting propaganda campaigns to convince the population that anthropogenic global warming is a liberal hoax understand full well how grave is the threat, but they must maximize short-term profit and market share. If they don't, someone else will.
This vicious cycle could well turn out to be lethal. To see how grave the danger is, simply have a look at the new Congress in the U.S., propelled into power by business funding and propaganda. Almost all are climate deniers.
1. Which business leaders, specifically?
2. What propaganda campaigns, specifically?
3. How does Chomsky know that these alleged leaders secretly believe in the global warming hoax?
Why isn’t Obama celebrating high oil prices? | The BlazeWe all, you see, have to make adjustments. As President Obama explained, “if you‘re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon … you might want to think about a trade-in.” What kind of trade-in, sir? Let me guess. A $41,000 economy-class government-made Chevy vehicle (a real cost of 100K-plus without taxpayer support) that plugs into expensive government-subsidized energy produced by the sweet howling wind? Yes, these are the serious people.
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The administration, of course, isn’t at fault when oil prices spike; it just seems to make matters worse. Or better, if you happen to be an environmentalist. So why isn’t it celebrating? Though the left may be wary of the political consequences, it has been pining for high fuel costs for decades. So here they are. Let’s see how the economy responds.
Record number of whales, krill found in Antarctic baysDURHAM, N.C. – Scientists have observed a "super-aggregation" of more than 300 humpback whales gorging on the largest swarm of Antarctic krill seen in more than 20 years in bays along the Western Antarctic Peninsula.
Oklahoma Delegation Responds to Obama's Energy Policy of Tax Increases"If the president doesn't want to stand up and be a leader, then his silence would be appreciated" - Obama "doesn't know squat about energy production." - "hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma jobs in jeopardy"
C3: U.S. Scientists From Oak Ridge Nat'l Labs Claim Climate Model Predictions Are "Evidence" - Tarot Cards Next?A famous climate scientist takes the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to task for a bogus climate model study where the scientists fraudulently believe that models have told them what regional climate conditions will be during the late 21st century. These virtual climate simulated predictions are about as reliable as astrology, tarot cards, a Oujia board or crystallomancy.
Legislators again reject renewable energy plan - Legislature - MiamiHerald.comTALLAHASSEE -- Solar and biomass energy companies mourned the loss of a sure job development opportunity Tuesday as the state Senate’s budget chief put a spear through a bill to spur renewable energy in Florida.
“I’d pronounce that one dead,’’ said Sen. J.D. Alexander, R-Lake Wales, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee after he indefinitely postponed a bill that would have allowed Florida’s largest electric companies to raise electric rates as much as $375 million a year for five years to develop alternative energy.
"I think it’s a terrible idea,’’ said Alexander, a citrus grower. "I can’t believe we’d ask Florida to pay $1 billion in additional assessments with zero regulatory oversight. I think that’s fundamentally not right.”
Wind farm growth also a windfall for truckers | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.comBrad Kohlwes' family trucking company in Des Moines hauls for wind farms. "This is a real boost for the trucking industry and for Iowa's economy," he said. "I just wish we didn't have to pay more than $4 for diesel like we do."
Trucks loaded with turbine parts get about 4 miles per gallon, he said.
Why not deliver the parts using wind-powered trucks?
Northwest Carbon Pricing Conference — Sightline Daily What do Rex Tillerson (CEO, Exxon Mobil), Michael Bloomberg, James Hansen, and T. Boone Pickens have in common? They all support carbon pricing. Come learn more about carbon pricing in this one-day conference.
Lorne Gunter: Former politicians plotting to sell climate-change scare | Full Comment | National PostI have for years fought the suggestion that global warming theory is a hoax and a conspiracy, preferring instead to believe it is the product of well-intentioned, but nonetheless mistaken mindset among lefty academics who find it easy to believe that man-made industrial emissions are threatening the planet.
But as more and more proof comes out about the cloaked activities of environmental lobbyists and politicians, it becomes harder and harder to deny a conspiracy exists.
What is the carbon footprint of the royal wedding? - TelegraphThe international event will generate 6,765 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e), 12 times the annual emissions from the London palace or 1,230 times the annual emissions of the average UK household.
Jonah Goldberg: Obama drops all the talk of climate change - baltimoresun.comClimate change is dead as a major political issue for the foreseeable future. Don't believe me? Check out President Obama's remarks in his weekly radio address last weekend. It was all about energy policy, yet not once did he talk about climate change.
In one sense that's odd, given that without global warming, his energy policy goes from merely misguided to outright bonkers.
Ski Park season had most snow ever - Mount Shasta, CA - Mount Shasta HeraldMarketing manager Jim Mullins said the record snowfall was a double edged sword. The Ski Park had the most snow ever recorded with over 200 inches at the top of Coyote.
“We had the earliest opening ever on December 7 and the longest season with the closing on Easter weekend,” Mullins said. “The problem was the there was too much snow in the spring. Conditions were great, but the weather reports kept people from coming up.”
Expert warns carbon tax is 'crazy' | Mackay News | Local News in Mackay | Mackay Daily MercuryA treasury analysis has showed households may pay $863 a year more for food, petrol, gas and power.
Prof Carter said the cost of a carbon tax was “absolutely enormous” and described it as “crazy”.
He said the Federal Government would be better off focusing a policy which dealt with the reality of climate change and invest in disaster centres and more disaster equipment, such as firefighting helicopters.
Wonk Room » Bonnie Frye Hemphill At Power Shift 2011: We Have The AwesomeWe’re also proud to define ourselves as what we’re not: we are cooler than the fossil forces of the past. They rail on chalkboards; we rally with giant puppets in the streets. They are talking heads for septuagenarians; we are sneaking into shareholder meetings and embarrassing giant fossil fuel companies. They are snarking about crosshairs on Facebook from defensive compounds in Wasilla. We are 10,000 lithe young people fighting for our future while a crotchety old pitbull like Tom Donohue screams to get off of his front yard at the US Chamber of Commerce. We are in the West Wing interrupting the President of the United States of America to remind him that energy shouldn’t kill.
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Our generation is staking its identity as the people responsible enough to face climate science for what it means, and political corruption for what it is....This is a movement of the young and young at heart – if you are awesome, you are in.
Wonk Room » Power Shift 2011 Flashmob Shuts Down BP: ‘Don’t Forget The BP Oil Disaster!’This afternoon, hundreds of youth climate activists shut down a BP gas station with people power. The flash mob contrasted a joyous and cheerful celebration of the beauty of the Gulf Coast — beach balls, beach chairs, and palm trees — with the devastation caused by the BP oil disaster. In an exclusive interview with ThinkProgress during the protest, Tulane University student Stephanie Stefanski explains why she drove 20 hours from Louisiana to the 2011 Power Shift conference to help to shut down BP and make them pay to restore the Gulf
High risk of severe weather again today «As noted yesterday, the rains and flooding has delayed the planting season for corn even as drought has done serious damage to the winter wheat. With some drying, expect planting to pick up in the next week or so but soil temperatures remain too cold for germination in many northern areas. This is a soil temperature map for this morning.
Corn planting typically begins in the Corn Belt when average air temperature is near 50 F and soil temperature at planting depth is around 55 F. However, optimum seed germination and emergence occur when air and soil temperatures reach 68-77 F, which is 15-25 degrees above the average planting date norms.
You can see those soil temperatures are still confined to areas where they are having the issues with too much rain. They will get the crop into the ground but there are typically yield losses for every day after May 1 planting occurs. The general rule is if farmers get 50% of the corn in the ground by May 1, you almost certainly reach trendline yields. As of April 24, 9% of the corn crop had been planted compared to 46% last year. Not much improvement is expected given the rainfall and soil temperatures by the next tally this Sunday on May 1.
[Climate hoax promoter] Ben Santer elected AGU fellowBut he'd give all the awards up if it meant he could present his research on human-induced climate change to a patient audience -- an audience that would listen to all the facts before making judgments about reality of a "discernible human influence" on climate.
Human-induced climate change is likely to be one of the major environmental problems of the 21st century, and effective policies to mitigate human effects on climate will require sound scientific information.
Wales set for more floods and hotter summers warns expert - news - Environment - Daily Post North WalesSir Houghton responded that critics should “ Look at the evidence and look at the details,” before making judgements.
“There’s been a massive misinformation campaign against climate change.” he added
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He concludes with a stark warning: “We’re putting greenhouse gasses in to the atmosphere at an alarming rate which is acting as a blanket to everything. Everything is getting warmer in various parts of the world, which is causing droughts and bigger floods. We’re also seeing the sea level’s rise as the ocean’s are getting warmer.”
Joe Soucheray: Tornadoes haven't spiked — the population has - TwinCities.comIt is axiomatic that in any New York Times story about any aspect of the weather, it is only a matter of time before the reporter — they appear to be operating from a set of instructions — inserts the required admonition about global warming, which is now more frequently called climate change and might soon return to being called global cooling.
I mention the New York Times only because it is so reliably predictable.
Two Airports « Musings from the Chiefio I think it’s pretty clear that compared to 1953 when these were “near twins” that SJC is now a degree or two warmer AND with much reduced volatility, especially downward volatility looks dampened to me.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper shows how natural ocean oscillations control climateAccording to climate scientist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr., "A very important new paper has been accepted for publication in Climate Dynamics," titled Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation And Northern Hemisphere’s Climate Variability. The paper shows how the climate of the Northern Hemisphere can be explained by a combination of the natural ocean cycles called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), without incorporating greenhouse gases.
Global warming's awful fortune tellers - Opinion - ReviewJournal.comThe editorial writers at Investor's Business Daily chewed on the unsavory irony of the fear-mongering predictions of the global alarmists.
"If there is any disruption in food supplies," they wrote, "it's caused by rising food prices ironically caused by increased demand for biofuels to save the earth, and the diversion of cropland and even the clear-cutting of sacred rainforests to produce them.
"The endless fraud perpetrated by the climate hucksters knows no bounds."
Even Jeane Dixon had a better record.
Australia - Transcript of doorstop interview - Beijing, 26 april 2011JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, what is your message to Chinese business sector, and those who might be wondering about the carbon tax, and whether it will affect their interests in (inaudible) in Australian export?
PM: Well, if anybody raises that with me, and no one has to date
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JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, you are not addressing any part of my question, will the carbon tax cause commodity prices in Australia [inaudible] to go up?
PM: Well we are working as you are well aware through a business round table with what are called in the trade a mission incentive trade exposed industries and we will keep working with them to get the design of the carbon price right, so we protect Australian jobs. But across the countries that I’ve visited on this trip - Japan, South Korea, China - people are hungry for our commodities export, they are hungry for our energy exports, including LNG, and so I am very confident these export industries have a very bright future.
Joe Romm: “It is clear that solar and wind are competitive in many situations right now” (Where have we heard this before?) — MasterResourceWhy would anyone buy a product that is more expensive that of poorer quality than a ready rival? Think of it with this example. Would you buy a more expensive car that had a trick motor–a motor that went on and off at any time?
Of course not! And this is why wind and solar as grid electricity must be taxpayer-gifted to the hilt with preferential tax policies and in some states (Texas being foremost) be mandated market share.
Deep fried flying | Watts Up With That? I’ve never much thought there was much usefulness to waste vegetable oil used for automobile fuel, as there is a much more finite amount of waste frying oil available compared to petroleum. Ditto for chicken fat powered aviation. Would you want to fly on a plane that is chicken fat powered? Personally, it seems clucking ridiculous.
I just wish NASA would stick to space exploration.
Global Warming has been buried this election | ScottishScepticSo, there we have it, the only mention in the whole election I can find for the last week is a single mention by the Greens tacking it on to the end of a long list: “… and tackle climate change”.
From “World’s greatest problem” to “the end of a long wish list which we aren’t at all serious about but have to mention” in two years.
China drafting special law on climate changeAccording to the plan, China will reduce energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 16 percent and lower CO2 emission per unit of GDP by 17 percent in the next five years. And the targets are "legally binding domestically," Xie said.
Quadrant Online - Methane madnessIt is difficult to imagine a more surreal policy, where no one else in the world understands or intends to bother with methane but we must set an example. Minister Combet should think of other ways of making money out of “carbon pollution” perhaps by selling it contained in coal, gas or beef rather than trading in what may well turn out to be carbon indulgences.
Will We Drown in Climate Change Denial? | The SunBreakBut his last three books–Under a Green Sky, The Medea Hypothesis, and most recently The Flooded Earth–argue with growing intensity that we underestimate the climate change to come, putting hundreds of millions of lives, if not billions, at risk.
Explorer Tells Tales of Adventure, Climate Change - Port Washington-Saukville, WI PatchThe constantly shifting and melting ice made the expedition “ten times more difficult than the Antarctic,” he said. Often times, he and his crew would wake up further south than they had been the previous night because of the moving ice.
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And while in the Arctic, Larsen said, "It seemed like everything about this journey was pitted against us."
With drifting ice, changing coordinates and wind chills as low as negative 45 degrees, Larsen said that he and his crew had to learn how to problem solve quickly.
Winter snow impacting elk, deer - MontanaA long cold winter coupled with predation has trimmed the South Fork elk and deer herds, according to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks
FWP biologist John Vore recently conducted aerial surveys of elk herds from the Hungry Horse Reservoir to the Danaher Basin in the Bob Marshall Wilderness and found that calves aren’t wintering well.
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According to SNOTEL data, the snowpack in the Noisy Basin, on the Swan Range near Jewel Basin, is actually higher now than it was in the historic 1996-97 winter. Ungulate populations took years to recover from that harsh winter.
Horner: Michael Mann may have something to hide | Norman Leahy | Opinion Zone | Washington Examiner Horner says these groups are “a little bit late to the party,” because, as noted above, UVA has already said it’s willing to release an academic’s emails, “so long as he’s a climate skeptic.”
Horner noted that the first of several installments of Mann’s records were supposed to be delivered by now. But he is concerned that this latest intervention by Mann’s supporters will convince UVA’s leadership to decline to provide them. He views this as a disturbing possibility.
So why are they fighting so hard? Horner said, referring to UVA’s legal bill. “they’ve given us half a million reasons to believe there’s something [in Mann’s emails] to hide.” Horner has been told that Mann’s own lawyer has contacted UVA asking whether the school intended to release the records, indicating that he is worried about what they may reveal if they are made public.
We may know soon enough.
Climate Change As Religion: The Gospel According To Gore - Larry Bell - The Bell Tells for You - ForbesThe “Goracle” carried out his prophetic ministry at the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit, declaring an impending Arctic disaster.
Citing “new research” undertaken at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, Gore told attendees, “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr. [Wieslaw] Maslowski that there is a 75% chance the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years…It is hard to capture the astonishment that the experts in the science of ice saw when they saw this.”
Scientists were, in fact, astonished by Gore’s statements. One was none other than Dr. Maslowski himself, who responded, “It’s unclear how the figure was arrived at. I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.” Gore’s office later admitted that the 75% figure was one used by Dr. Maslowski as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Gore.
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